I was in a similar situation. A guy rear ended me in my 3 month old car, his license plate screws left some markings on my bumper. It was hardly noticable, but it's textured plastic so you can't sand it off and you can't paint it. The guy was being an ass, wouldn't give me his insurance papers at first, and was offering to give me $200 cash on the spot.
After much yelling back and forth, I got his DL, insurance papers and he told me to bring it to a shop, get a quote and phone him back. Since he was being a douch, I just went to ICBC, got my entire rear bumper replaced since I have new car cost replacement insurance and the total bill was like $2000. Didn't cost me any deductible.
It would probably be safer for you to just go through ICBC.
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